Bee off with you
Dec. 1st, 2005 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI'm over summer already and it's only the first day. Go away, hot weather! And take every copy of that inappropriate "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" Christmas song with you. Hmph.
Final results out today: High Distinctions in both my subjects, which pleases me greatly. What really pleases me, though, is that the highest mark was in the subject I loathed and considered dropping every week of the semester. So, yay me!
And even better than that: the bee cross-stitch is almost finished.
One winter I bought myself a large cross-stitch sampler to do as an ongoing project over the season, maybe into spring and summer as well. I had done a few cross-stitch kits before, but they were quite small and only involved whole stitches, a little bit of backstitch and perhaps a few French knots; nothing fancy. This design, which someone quicker and more organised has obligingly put here, proved to be trickier. Not only because it's large, but also because of the vast array of often quite similar colours, fractional cross-stitches and a lot of backstitch. So. Much. Backstitch. I've spent years outlining things in dark coffee brown backstitch. I would work on it intensively for a fortnight then be discouraged at the lack of any discernible progress and so put it away for another year. Every January when I wrote my yearly list of things to do, "finish the bee cross-stitch" was always on it. It's been a linen-weave millstone around my neck for ten years.
But no longer: 2006 will be bee cross-stitch free! I only have to backstitch around the three bees in the top right-hand corner, and then do the French knots and a few chain stitches and it's all over. It will be done by the end of the week. I'm starting to miss it already.
Final results out today: High Distinctions in both my subjects, which pleases me greatly. What really pleases me, though, is that the highest mark was in the subject I loathed and considered dropping every week of the semester. So, yay me!
And even better than that: the bee cross-stitch is almost finished.
One winter I bought myself a large cross-stitch sampler to do as an ongoing project over the season, maybe into spring and summer as well. I had done a few cross-stitch kits before, but they were quite small and only involved whole stitches, a little bit of backstitch and perhaps a few French knots; nothing fancy. This design, which someone quicker and more organised has obligingly put here, proved to be trickier. Not only because it's large, but also because of the vast array of often quite similar colours, fractional cross-stitches and a lot of backstitch. So. Much. Backstitch. I've spent years outlining things in dark coffee brown backstitch. I would work on it intensively for a fortnight then be discouraged at the lack of any discernible progress and so put it away for another year. Every January when I wrote my yearly list of things to do, "finish the bee cross-stitch" was always on it. It's been a linen-weave millstone around my neck for ten years.
But no longer: 2006 will be bee cross-stitch free! I only have to backstitch around the three bees in the top right-hand corner, and then do the French knots and a few chain stitches and it's all over. It will be done by the end of the week. I'm starting to miss it already.
